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Show I REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 16.5 I The measure of success'of the farmer in the world at large is the ; . value of his product. This, however,is not exactly the standard of on Indian school. The Indian boy not only must be taught the right way of preparing for, planting, and cultivating his crops, but his attention should be drawn to the wrong way, so that he may know what to avoid as well as what to imitate. The objective lesson of a poor crop which can be traced to incorrect planting is as good as that of an abundant one obtained by correct methods. For this rea-son the amount produced on an Indian school farm is not a wholly trustworthy index of the fruits of the expenditure, since the educative value of the incidental training can not be reduced to dollars and cents. Nevertheless, the crop returns have a certain interest of their own. Every school is required to'keep an accurate account with its farm, garden, etc., and on the 1st of January to make a report on blanks prepared for the purpose, s o that the O5ce may have its information in uniform shape for comparison. The statistics of the calendar year 1905 show the following total results from the farms: Value of- Field crops ...............................................$.1 40,350.16 Orchard o d c t. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,458.16 a products ...................... 79,521.47 r Live sto& ._..-.-...-..-..---.-.--...r...-.----.---.-.----- 88,752.97 P o t ................................................... 6,611.96 Miscellaneous products ..................................... 40,094.46 Gross earnings .................................................3 62,789.17 Cost of labor and material ..............: . ...................... 344,687.39 Net gain ..............................A -.--.-...-.--.-L~.- 18,101.78 or 5% per cent excess of income over expenses. The schools showing the largest clear gains for the year were: Ghilocco ................ $11,735.15 Carlisle ................. 10,557.00 S e e 6,993.12 Fort Totteu .............. 4,580,187 Pima ................... 4,010.08 ............ Riggs Institute 3,675.96 a m ... ................ 3,855.56 l'omah ................. $2,778.25 Pipestone ............... 2,495.12 Riverside (Okla.) ........ 2,308.96 Standing Rock (agricul-tural ............... 2,280.50 Rosebud ......-----.2.,.1.46.. 09 CONSERTING INDIAN ART. On the same principle which has actuated my effort to preserve and perpetuate that which is best in our aboriginal music, I have been exerting myself during the last year to rescue and develop the best ideals in the pictorial, plastic, and textiIe arts of the Indian. At one or t r o schools which are specially attended by Navaho children it has heen found practicable to set up looms and institute a course of instruc- 133~-46a r d |